[UA-discuss] Armenia

Asmus Freytag (c) asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Wed Feb 13 04:10:32 UTC 2019


On 2/12/2019 7:51 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> What I am arguing is that you cannot retroactively apply standards 
>> that haven't been followed; particularly for HTML you have a whole 
>> internet's worth of legacy data that any system must be able to 
>> handle and continue to do so for the indefinite future.
>
> I suppose we're stuck with UTS46 for IDNs in URLs for now, but as we 
> are seeing there are places where UTS46 does the wrong thing, so there 
> are places we can fix at the front end.
>
> After all, if the input is preprocssed into valid U-labels and dots, 
> UTS46 nontransitional shouldn't make things any worse. 


Best avenue for that is new protocols where you may be able to enforce 
pure IDNs.

A./

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